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'It didn't use to bug you'

DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.

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Shidosyncrasy

Created by: Erik1

Pronunciation: Shid-e-o-syn-crow-see

Sentence: For shidosyncrasy the poison was in the dose.

Etymology: Shutdown (or perhaps another word) ;) + idiosyncrasy

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Intimesstation

Created by: alphabetapolothology

Pronunciation:

Sentence: His intimesstation of uncontrollable gas had become a black cloud in their relationship.

Etymology: intimate + mess + irritation

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Sexappall

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: seks-uh-pall

Sentence: Over time, Sue realized that Bob had developed sexappall; not only did he pass gas in public, he loudly rated his emissions on a scale of 1 to 10.

Etymology: sex appeal, appall

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COMMENTS:

maybe that explains the wilted flowers - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 13:22:00

Very likely. Who would want a fartner with such a terrible characteristink? - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 14:43:00

You'd better be careful purple - this infiltration of verbospeak may require a verbotomy lobotomy - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 15:40:00

Lingosuction? OHNOOOOOOOOOO!!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 17:27:00

this is getting wordiculous...absword even - rikboyee, 2007-02-15: 19:31:00

(Methinks rikboyee needs lingosuction more than I.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 19:42:00

very funny! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 21:11:00

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Vexitating

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: vex-i-ta-ting

Sentence: Sam was the most vexitating man I ever knew. He had more bad habits than an alcoholic nun.

Etymology: vex: to cause annoyance by minor irritations + irritating: chafe; aggravating

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COMMENTS:

artr Lol. I\'ve known a few Sams too. - artr, 2009-09-09: 12:21:00

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Chewumuy

Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: che-wu-mu-ae

Sentence: I took him for a nice guy when first i met him in university but he proved a chewumuy latter on , i just hate these fellows.

Etymology: chewing + gum. chew form chewing, um from gum. uy from guy. chewing gum tastes great at start but just gets irritating latter on.

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Divugnance

Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: His once endearing habit of winking at her was quickly becoming a divugnance.

Etymology: from diversion as in quirk, abboration or abnomality and repugnance as in distaste, repulsion and resentment.

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Relationslip

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: ree/lay/shun/slip

Sentence: Playing air guitar every time he said something funny was cute at first but turned into a giant relationslip

Etymology: relationship + slip

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COMMENTS:

This is good and goofy! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 17:13:00

thanks wordmeister - porsche, 2007-02-16: 09:38:00

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Annoyhilate

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ənoiəlāt

Sentence: Genny really didn*t know how break up with Peter, so she set out to annoyhilate their relationship. He was able to tolerate the **dainties** hanging in the shower and the load of laundry where she **accidently** washed all his whites with her new red blouse. He could even grin and bear it when she picked her teeth in public. What finally put it over the edge and sent him packing was her laugh/snort. And she hadn*t even planned that one.

Etymology: annoy [irritate (someone); make (someone) a little angry] + annihilate [destroy utterly; obliterate]

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COMMENTS:

good word...well describes all those annoyhellations! - Nosila, 2009-09-09: 14:39:00

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Jiltrait

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: jill-trate (rhymes with filtrate)

Sentence: Hogan wondered why his relationships never lasted; finally a friend told him about all of his bad jiltraits.

Etymology: jilt + trait

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Quirkedout

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: qwerked-out

Sentence: Julie was quirkedout by Dan's annoying habbit of clicking his teeth.

Etymology: quirk + past tense + out

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Comments:

wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...

ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.